Rebranding Frosh a start, but not enough
The culture of disrespect and rejection within the U of M student body is still vibrant. There are moments that make me second guess whether…
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We’re back (in print), baby!
Even before I set foot on campus for the first time, way back in the fall of 2019, I knew I wanted to be a…
The great Zoom experience
I grew up on movies, especially the ones about the so-called “great college experience,” one of learning, meeting friends, sitting in great big lecture halls,…
The easy way out of caring for people
In the first episode of Futurama, our hapless hero Philip J. Fry arrives in the year 2999 and stumbles upon one of the future’s popular…
Allyship should not end at the legislature’s doors
“Life gets easier once you are out.” That is what is often heard from close family and friends once one decides to come out and…
U of M would fail service inspection
With a surplus of $94 million in the 2020-21 fiscal year the university — regardless of the fact that the University of Manitoba Graduate Students’ Association (UMGSA) advocated that graduate student fees should not go up, particularly during the ongoing pandemic — upped graduate student summer fees by at least 464%.
Conservatives are an imminent threat to health care
As social conservatism has slowly lost traction, the economic state of affairs of Conservatives has remained firm despite the evident disruption this has caused to the health system throughout Canada.
The ‘pilgrimage of penance’ is not enough
The reconciliation agenda awaiting Pope Francis is broad and might not live up to the standards of Indigenous communities, but the neglect that Indigenous people continue to face from the political establishment is not promising either.
Federal Tories and extremism continue to converge
If the interim leader seems to be damaging the party’s public image, the incoming leader is not offering much hope either. Leadership candidates prove unity is more than lacking within Conservative party membership.
Bridging the mental health gap is the community’s job
Though Zoom memberships have now expired without an expected renewal, sweatshirts are wearing thing, and restrictions are essentially fully eased, one issue persists: the toll the pandemic has taken on the student body.